内容摘要：A Lancaster bomber - the most successful RAF heavy bomber of World War Two - led the VE Day flypast, accompanied by aircraft including fighters jets, transport aircraft and the Red Arrows.

A Lancaster bomber - the most successful RAF heavy bomber of World War Two - led the VE Day flypast, accompanied by aircraft including fighters jets, transport aircraft and the Red Arrows.

It estimates that 80% of those jobs will come from Bedford, central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.The company does not expect to struggle to fill those roles and is working to ensure jobs are available for local people.

Mr Thompson said: "We'll work with all of the local colleges, universities, and schools to try to make sure that we can help develop the skills that we need to attract those people."The reason we went to Kimberley College and to Bedford College for our public meetings was to emphasise how we want to work with those institutions and others to develop curricula that helps create the jobs."We've done a lot of research on both the number of people during the construction period and the number of people during operations, and we believe that in Bedford and the surrounding boroughs and the surrounding area, that we will have no trouble drawing that number of people."

He said half of the management team based in Orlando started as hourly workers and there would be similar opportunities for career development for the young people of Bedford.Mr Thompson said he expected the theme park would be "transformational" for the Bedford area.

He explained that at other parks, tourists had travelled from around the world, stayed in nearby hotels and made use of local amenities.

"We want people to stay overnight, because that's really a beautiful area," he said.In a sign of the depth of feeling within the party on the issue, fellow backbencher Rosie Duffield has described the cap as amounting to "social cleansing".

, she added that the "sinister" policy was "an attack on women's right to choose how many children they have".Save the Children, a charity, has estimated that scrapping the cap would take half a million children out of relative poverty.

It argues that government plans for an anti-poverty strategy will not be "credible" unless the cap is dropped at the autumn Budget.The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank